ACCELERATED INTERMEDIATE FRENCH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: FRENCH 102 or 105 (or FRENCH 201 prior to Summer 2025) or placement into FRENCH 203 . Not open to students with credit for FRENCH 204 . Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Frgn Lang - 4th semester language Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Honors - Accelerated Honors (!) Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate orally and in writing to share ideas, ask questions, and answer questions about friendship, social media, scientific innovations, food cultures around the world, globalization, immigration, and language advocacy. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and many details of journalistic articles, surveys, interviews, feature-length films, works of literature and other written, multimodal, and video texts in French about course topics. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compose brief informal written texts in French about course topics listed above and formally in three writing projects (film review, editorial, public service announcement). Audience: Undergraduate 4. Present ideas persuasively in French about course topics listed above in a group presentation and a short digital recording. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate understanding of lexico-grammatical structures in French for communicating in the past, present, and future about course topics listed above. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate understanding of cultural products, practices, and perspectives related to course topics listed above. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Reflect on differences between one's own culture and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of the French-speaking world. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate orally and in writing to share ideas, ask questions, and answer questions about friendship, social media, scientific innovations, food cultures around the world, globalization, immigration, and language advocacy. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and many details of journalistic articles, surveys, interviews, feature-length films, works of literature and other written, multimodal, and video texts in French about course topics. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Compose brief informal written texts in French about course topics listed above and formally in three writing projects (film review, editorial, public service announcement). Audience: Undergraduate 4. Present ideas persuasively in French about course topics listed above in a group presentation and a short digital recording. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate understanding of lexico-grammatical structures in French for communicating in the past, present, and future about course topics listed above. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate understanding of cultural products, practices, and perspectives related to course topics listed above. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Reflect on differences between one's own culture and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of the French-speaking world. Audience: Undergraduate